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Lev Kerbel

1917 - 2003

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Lev Yefimovich Kerbel (Russian: Лев Ефимович Кербель; November 7 [O.S. October 25] 1917 – 14 August 2003) was a Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works. Kerbel's creations included statues of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to socialist and the Third World countries across the world. Kerbel was born to a Jewish family in the village of Semyonovka in Chernigov Governorate, Russian Republic (currently Semenivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine), on the day that the Winter Palace in Petrograd was stormed by the Bolsheviks. Lev's family moved to the Smolensk region, where he began sculpting as a child. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Kerbel is the 177th most popular sculptor (up from 193rd in 2019), the 586th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 655th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Lev Kerbel ranks 177 out of 258. Before him are Ernst Neizvestny, Johann Georg Pinsel, Tullio Lombardo, Balthasar Permoser, Robert Jacobsen, and Sergey Merkurov. After him are Melchiorre Cafà, David Černý, Matthias Braun, Hermann Obrist, Juan Martínez Montañés, and Valie Export.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Lev Kerbel ranks 198. Before him are R. G. Armstrong, Fadwa Tuqan, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, M. G. Ramachandran, José Perácio, and Song Ping. After him are Inge Scholl, Charles Drake, Minoru Chiaki, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Ann Rutherford, and Robert Byrd. Among people deceased in 2003, Lev Kerbel ranks 203. Before him are Saifuddin Azizi, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Philip Stone, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, and Fedora Barbieri. After him are Giorgio Gaber, Piet Dankert, Naftali Temu, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, Althea Gibson, and Olle Anderberg.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Kerbel ranks 586 out of 1,365. Before him are Nicholas Charnetsky (1884), Nikolay Girs (1820), Viktor Knorre (1840), Roman Karmen (1906), Boris Mikhailov (1938), and Victor Pinchuk (1960). After him are Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905), Leo Deutsch (1855), Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916), and Pinhas Lavon (1904).

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Among SCULPTORS In Ukraine

Among sculptors born in Ukraine, Lev Kerbel ranks 4. Before him are Alexander Archipenko (1887), Yevgeny Vuchetich (1908), and Chana Orloff (1888). After him are Ivan Martos (1754), and Louise Nevelson (1899).

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